at an exposition at the Templo Mayor museum in Mexico City. The sculpture which was discovered in 2007 depicts the Aztec god Tlaltecuhtli. The exposition also displays many offerings found along with the sculpture. September 13: First showing of Werner Herzog's documentary film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the Chauvet Cave (at the Toronto International Film Festival). Publications April 8: Publication of Denisovan DNA. May 7: Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project publish the first draft of their DNA sequencing, containing enough of the Neanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have interbred. June A radiocarbon dating study of plant matter, usually from offerings at Egyptian kings' burial sites, is published in Science. The researchers have compared these dates with presumed historical dates using Bayesian inference to determine if there is any correlation. Among the findings is that the Old Kingdom began between 2691 and 2625 BC, while the New Kingdom began between 1570 and 1544 BC. A British archaeologist announces that sedimentary evidence suggests that Neanderthals entered Kent soon after the land bridge from mainland Europe appeared, about 100,000 years BP, 40,000 years earlier than previously thought. July: Archaeologists working for the Natural History Museum excavating a coastal site at Happisburgh in East Anglia announce that it was occupied by a date as early as 950,000 years BP, the earliest and northernmost evidence of human expansion into Eurasia. August 10: Archaeologists working on the Stone Age site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire announce that they have found the earliest surviving remains of a house in Britain, dating from at least 8,500 years BC. August 12: Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology publish indirect evidence for stone tool use dating to 3.39 million years BP from Dikika, Ethiopia. P. J. Capelotti - The Human Archaeology of Space: Lunar, Planetary and Interstellar Relics of Exploration. David J. Mattingly - Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire. Bjørnar Olsen - In Defense of Things: Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects. Donald B. Redford - City of the Ram-Man: the Story of Ancient Mendes. Deaths February 2: Donald Wiseman, former Professor of Assyriology at the University of London (b. 1918) September 12: Honor Frost, Mediterranean underwater archaeologist (b. 1917) October 28: Ehud Netzer, Professor of archeology at Hebrew University known for his excavations related to Herod the Great (b. 1934) References Archaeology Archaeology by year Archaeology,